inferior+poet
61poetaster — poetastering, poetastery, poetastry, poetasterism, n. poetastric, poetastrical, adj. /poh it as teuhr/, n. an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse. [1590 1600; < ML or NL; see POET, ASTER1] Syn. rhymester. * * * …
62theatres, war of the — ▪ English literature in English literary history, conflict involving the Elizabethan playwrights Ben Jonson (Jonson, Ben), John Marston (Marston, John), and Thomas Dekker (Dekker, Thomas). It covered a period when Jonson was writing for one …
63poetaster — n. Rhymester, petty poet, inferior poet …
64poetaster — po•et•as•ter [[t]ˈpoʊ ɪtˌæs tər[/t]] n. pro an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse • Etymology: 1590–1600; < ML or NL; see poet, aster I …
65poetaster — /poʊəˈtæstə / (say pohuh tastuh) noun an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse. {Medieval Latin or New Latin. See poet, aster1} …
66poetaster — n. a paltry or inferior poet. Etymology: mod.L (as POET): see ASTER …
67poetaster — noun Etymology: New Latin, from Latin poeta + aster aster Date: 1599 an inferior poet …
68rhymester — also rimester noun Date: 1589 an inferior poet …
69balladmonger — balladmongering, n. /bal euhd mung geuhr, mong /, n. 1. a seller of ballads. 2. an inferior poet. [1590 1600; BALLAD + MONGER] * * * …
70pathetic fallacy — the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings, as in the smiling skies; the angry sea. [coined by John Ruskin in Modern Painters Vol. III, Part IV (1856)] * * * ▪ figure of speech poetic practice of… …
